Name of tools - PowerPoint

Link to tools - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/powerpoint

Description of tools - Presentation software, like PowerPoint, offers an easy method for students to share information through presentations.

Applicable grade levels for tools - Grades 3-12

Description of how the tools could be used in the classroom to reinforce skills and concepts in your content area - PowerPoint could be used in the classroom to assist students in adding multimedia and hyperlinks to their presentation, assist students in critical thinking, organizing, and planning, and to assist students in thinking through logical reports.

Appropriate use for diverse learners - Diverse learners can use this "user-friendly" program to organize videos and clip-art that could assist in articulating their message related to the content.

Benefits and limitations of the tool - Benefits of PowerPoint include the integration of pictures, videos, and hyperlinks. The program offers a variety of presentation styles that could be selected and animations that could bring the presentation life. Limitations include technical problems, providing too much information in a slide, and needing some expertise to present the information well.

How educators can advocate, model, and teach the responsible and ethical use of technology to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally - Educators can use PowerPoint as a preliminary introduction to students. Educators can create activities too slowly integrate students into the use of the program.

Name of tools - Kidspiration

Link to tools - https://www.diagrammingapps.com/kidspiration-maps-product-page

Description of tools - Kidspiration maps helps students build and sharpen reading, writing, and thinking skills.

Applicable grade levels for tools - Elementary students

Description of how the tools could be used in the classroom to reinforce skills and concepts in your content area - Students can use this program to create a graphic organizer when considering key events in American history that influenced the changes in American culture since American inception to contemporary society.

Appropriate use for diverse learners - Kispiration is user-friendly and relies on visual art to display information.

Benefits and limitations of the tools - While a limitation of kidspiration is the grade level it targets and its prepubescent art, its benefits include ease of use, cross-curriculum flexibility, and its activities that increase a students motivation to read and write while improving their learning abilities.

How educators can advocate, model, and teach the responsible and ethical use of technology to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally - Educators can model the use of this program to expose students to its components before gradually having students explore the program while creating content for assignments.

Name of tools - Glogster

Link to tools - https://edshelf.com/tool/glogster/

Description of tools - This program allows educators and/or students to create digital posters made up of text, images, music, and videos.

Applicable grade levels for tools - Glogster targets students who are 12 years of age or older.

Description of how the tools could be used in the classroom to reinforce skills and concepts in your content area - Glogster could be used in a history class to create propaganda posters related to any of the wars that influenced America's culture of the time.

Appropriate use for diverse learners - Glogster is user-friendly and operates by using video and images (among text) to present content-related information.

Benefits and limitations of the tools - Benefits to using Glogster includes motivating students to engage, its ability to develop student competences like skills in communicating and problem identification, and it has been shown to spark curiosity while contributing to growth in collaborative and interpersonal skills. The main limitation is its requirement of a very strong internet connection.

How educators can advocate, model, and teach the responsible and ethical use of technology to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally - Educators can expose students to glogster and support them through guiding methods while students use the program to compile and present data.

Name of tools - Timetoast

Link to tools - https://www.timetoast.com/

Description of tools - Timetoast is a digital tool that allows the user to crate an interactive timeline of events with the inclusion of photos, text, and links.

Applicable grade levels for tools - This tool targets students as early as the third grade to as late as the senior year in highschool.

Description of how the tools could be used in the classroom to reinforce skills and concepts in your content area - Timetoast is especially useful for World or U.S. History as students will use it to create a timeline of key events that shaped the growth and destruction of civilizations our the events that influenced our country during times of change.

Appropriate use for diverse learners - Diverse learners benefit greatly from this tool due to its ease of use.

Benefits and limitations of the tools - The limitations of Timetoast include a lack of privacy and saturation of advertisements on the free subscription which can cause distractions. Benefits include its level of visual communication and how it helps students sequentialize events in a chronological order that supports a higher level of understanding of the course instruction.

How educators can advocate, model, and teach the responsible and ethical use of technology to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally - Educators can spend a brief amount of time exposing students to this tool before integrating it in course instruction.

Name of tools - Microsoft Excel - Grade Keeper

Link to tools - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/excel

Description of tools - This tool is able to organize and systematize grades based off coded input by the educator. It is a program meant to manage student progress.

Applicable grade levels for tools - Any grade level as long as the educator has enough proficiency to use it.

Description of how the tools could be used in the classroom to reinforce skills and concepts in your content area - This tool will be used in the classroom to manage student progress. The data input can be used to analyze when considering a change in instruction or the need for a higher frequency of assessments.

Appropriate use for diverse learners - Diverse learners will be able to understand grade levels (A-F) making this a user-friendly tool for learners to review.

Benefits and limitations of the tools - The benefits include tracking student progress and recording said progress. Limitations are seen in its vulnerability in user errors, lack of security, and absent integrated project management features.

How educators can advocate, model, and teach the responsible and ethical use of technology to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally - Educators will use this tool to assist them in recording student data related to assessments which, in reflective summary, will guide them with integrating appropriate instructional strategies while adjusting the frequency of formative and summative assessments.